What Makes a Community Healthy?
What makes a community healthy?
UNEQUAL TREATMENT. What makes a community healthy? At Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, nurse Christi Gaubert works in the oncology infusion center, where cancer patients receive treatment. More photos …
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Can a New Twist on a Native American Tradition Help Solve America's Prison …
Can a New Twist on a Native American Tradition Help Solve America's Prison …
Council is also being adopted as a team-building tool by a growing number of businesses and organizations, from the Xerox Corporation to the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center. In the Middle East, peace activists are using… Continue reading
5 Youths Receive 'Military Child of the Year' Awards
5 youths receive 'Military Child of the Year' awards
He wants to become a pediatric rheumatologist, focusing his practice within military treatment facilities. Coast Guard: Another winner wants to enter the medical field to work with children — aspiring pediatrician Juanita Lindsay Collins, 17, of …
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Heroin Threatens Vermont's Rural Paradise
Heroin Threatens Vermont's Rural Paradise
“The governor deserves some credit for being willing to shine a light on that corner of the Vermont experience,” says Bob Bick, director of mental health and substance abuse services at the Howard Center in Burlington. He praises a pilot program the …
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Trouble in Paradise: Hawaiians vs. Big Agriculture
Trouble in paradise: Hawaiians vs. Big Agriculture
Marghee Maupin, a primary care provider at the Kauai Community Health Center in Waimea who treats both fieldworkers and local residents, says she's never seen so many patients come in with rashes, skin blisters, and respiratory ailments. “I hear of …
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Cory Booker Insists That Helping Young Men of Color Helps the Whole Country
Cory Booker Insists That Helping Young Men of Color Helps the Whole Country
Observers wondered whether Booker would focus on issues related to low-income communities in the Senate, or tack towards the ideological center in preparation for a potential national race. Booker appears to have … "I'm intending to work… Continue reading
Local View: Reform Prisons for Safety, Savings
Local View: Reform prisons for safety, savings
One potential reform to consider is a graduated sanctions model of probation. Modeled after Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement court, participants must call in every morning to determine if they must report for a randomized drug screening.
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How to Deal With the Shock News of Cancer?
Question by Ammmz: how to deal with the shock news of cancer?
I recently recieved some shocking news that my partner has a tumor and im not dealing with it well. I cannot focus on studies or anything else in life.
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Doctors Without Borders Expelled From Myanmar
Doctors Without Borders expelled from Myanmar
Doctors Without Borders says HIV and tuberculosis clinics in Rakhine, Shan and Kachin states, as well as the main city of Yangon, were closed Friday, denying patients life-saving medicines. The group is Myanmar's main provider of HIV drugs, treating 30 …
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Officials: County Addiction Treatment System Making Strides
Officials: County addiction treatment system making strides
Before Journey Mental Health Center started overhauling its intake process in 2009, someone who called seeking help with an addiction was scheduled for an initial appointment a week or two later, Clinical Director Sue Moran said. Between 30 and 40 …
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